The Organizing and International Advisory Committee is planning an outstanding scientific program. We have confirmed the following globally recognized scientists to give keynote presentations:

Headshots of 4 individuals who are giving keynote talks at Cytokines 2025

INVITED SPEAKERS

Andrea Ablaser, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Session: DNA sensing 

Mark Ansel, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States
Session: Cytokine regulation of adaptive immunity II

Tal Arnon, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Session: Cytokine regulation of humoral immunity

Glen Barber, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Session: DNA sensing 

Katherine Barnett, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Session: Cytokines in Inflammation

Rami Bechara, Paris-Saclay University, Inserm, Paris, France
Session: Cytokines in autoimmunity

Stephanie Boisson-Dupuis, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, United States
Session: Genomic and cytokine responses

Tyler Bold, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Session: Host-responses to Microbial infection I

Jane Buckner, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
Session: Cytokines in autoimmunity

Susan Carpenter, University Of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
Session: Innate immunity

Sara Cherry, University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Session: Cytokine stimulated genes

Carolyn Coyne, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Session: Cytokines in maternal and fetal health

Kate Fitzgerald, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States
Session: Innate immunity

Adriana Forero, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Session: Innate immunity

Sarah L. Gaffen, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Session: Host-responses to Microbial infection I

Michael Gale Jr., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Session: Interferon regulation and function 

Liraz Galia-Shmuel, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

Rachel A. Gottschalk, University of Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Jessica Hamerman, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States
Session: Myeloid cells development, function & trained immunity

Emily Hemann, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Session: Type III Interferon regulation and function

Caitlyn Holmes, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Session: Host-responses to Microbial infection I

Lora Hooper, UT Soutwestern, Dallas, TX, United States
Session: Cytokines in microbiome dynamics

Brendan Jenkins, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Session: Cytokines in cancer

Vandana Kalia, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, United States
Session: Cytokine regulation of adaptive immunity II

Alison Kell, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Session: Host-responses to virus infection

Nichole Klatt, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Session: Cytokines in microbiome dynamics

Robyn Klein, Western University, London, OT, Canada
Session: Cytokines in microbiome dynamics

Ryan Langlois, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Session: Host-responses to virus infection

Helen Lazear, University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Session: Cytokines in maternal and fetal health

Sharon Lewin, Doherty Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Session: Host-responses to virus infection

Helene Liu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Session: RNA sensing

Carolina Lopez, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, United States
Session: Innate Immunity II

Li-Fan Lu, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
Session: Cytokines in T-cell programming and responses

Musa Mhlanga, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jonathan Miner, University of Pennsylvania, Springfield, PA, United States
Session: Cytokines in autoimmunity

Selinda Orr, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom
Session: Host-responses to Microbial infection I

Shekhar Pasare, University of Cincinnati, OH, United States
Session: Myeloid cells development, function & trained immunity

Virginia Pascual, Drukier Institute at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States
Session: Cytokines in autoimmunity

Naeha Subramanian, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA, United States

Jan Rehwinkel, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Carla Rothlin,Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States
Session: Myeloid cells development, function & trained immunity

Ram Savan, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Session: Type III Interferon regulation and function

Sunny Shin, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Session: Host-responses to Microbial infection I

Dan Stetson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Session: DNA sensing 

Mehul Suthar, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States
Session: Myeloid cells development, function & trained immunity

Jenny Ting, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Session: Inflammation in acute & chronic diseases

Russell Vance, UC Berkeley, Albany, CA, United States
Session: Interferon regulation and function 

Vaiva Vezys, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Session: Cytokines in T-cell programming and responses

Josh Woodward, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Session: Innate immunity

Autumn York, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Session: Inflammation in acute & chronic diseases